Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko will serve her 22-year jail term over the killing of two Russian journalists, the Kremlin said Saturday despite Kiev’s pushing for a prisoner exchange …read more Source: The Daily...

Two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the latest uptick in fighting with pro-Russian separatists in the country’s war-torn east, a Kiev military official said Saturday …read more Source: The Daily...

Yuri Grabovsky (right) in court with Russian serviceman Alexander Alexandrov. KIEV – Yuriy Grabovsky, Ukrainian lawyer, was found a dead body that has been discovered on the grounds of a former farming collective, prosecutor Anatoly Matios said on Friday, saying two men were in custody in connection with the lawyer’s death. It is worth...

GENEVA/MOSCOW/BEIRUT — Syrian troops backed by Russian air support fought their way into the Daesh-held city of Palmyra on Thursday, their biggest offensive yet against the extremists, as Moscow and Washington hailed cooperation to help end the civil war. US Secretary of State John Kerry met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in an atmosphere...

Moscow, SANA-Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday hoped that the visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry to Moscow would help approximate stances between Moscow and Washington on the crises in Syria and Ukraine. “The two countries can reach common points and go ahead in bilateral and international issues,” Russia Today TV quoted...

Suicide bombings in Istanbul, a row with the Kremlin and hard times for the Russian middle class – all these factors spell trouble for Turkey’s tourist industry and its wider economy. Nowhere is the mood gloomier than among shopkeepers in Istanbul, Turkey’s cultural gem and scene last weekend of the second suicide attack on tourists...